The Life of Wagner by Ernest Newman — Greatness and Monstrousness in the Same Skin
Few figures in the history of Western art invite such contradictory feelings as Richard Wagner….
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow — The Immigrant Who Built the Machine the Rest of Us Live Inside
A review of Ron Chernow’s landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton — the illegitimate Caribbean orphan who out-hustled every Founding Father and built the America we actually live in.
